"Health care facilities present workers with a myriad of potential health and safety hazards."

— National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Can a profession that promotes health and healing also be harmful? Research shows that nurses face exposures to an extraordinary array of harmful chemicals, drugs, and other physical agents — everything from hospital disinfectants to anti-cancer drugs, specialty cleaning agents and radiation. Some of these are linked to cancer; others may cause birth defects or other health harms.

Thank you for your interest in this survey. We are no longer collecting survey responses at this time. Environmental Working Group and Health Care Without Harm have partnered on a year long survey on nurses' health and the environment. The survey wa s designed as an outreach tool, to educate nurses about the safety of their common occupational exposures in a health care setting. Results from the survey will be release later this year. For more information about the purpose of this survey, please contact EWG.